Francesco da Barberino. “Sentenze. Of Caution.”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1861
Rhyme: aabbccdd
Meter: iambic trimeter
Genre: extract

Bibliography

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is Part 5 of the “Sotto Prudenza” section of the Documenti d'Amore of Francesco da Barberino (1264-1348). The translation is close. DGR's source text was Ubaldini's edition of 1614. For further commentary see DGR's note in The Early Italian Poets and the editorial commentary for DGR's translation of an excerpt from Del reggimento e de'costumi delle donne, also by Francesco. DGR translated four short portions of this long work.

Textual History: Composition

Probably late 1840s.

Printing History

The translation was first published in 1861 in The Early Italian Poets; it was reprinted in 1874 in Dante and his Circle.

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